History A-Level
coming to terms with the past
What coming to terms with the past means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Also called Vergangenheitsbewältigung; a significant process that allowed economic recovery and political stability but led to continuity of elites and public silence.
Topics that use coming to terms with the past
- Paper 3, Option 37.2: Germany, 1871–1990: united, divided and reunited - 4 Establishing and ruling the new Federal Republic, 1949–60 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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